10.4 The Summer Palace is now home to a beautiful sunset and the "Golden Light Through the Hole" spectacle.

At the foot of the rolling West Mountain in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, there are abundant springs, lakes, and mountains and rivers. Since the Liao and Jin Dynasties, it has been a scenic spot with natural landscapes of Jiangnan water towns. Therefore, the dynasties have built palaces and gardens here. Among the many royal gardens represented by "Three Mountains and Five Gardens", the Summer Palace on Wanshou Mountain is "the best" with its well-preserved, large-scale, beautiful scenery, solemn and gorgeous features, and has become the "crown of the royal garden in Beijing". The Summer Palace, designed and built based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese architectural art and an insurmountable peak in the history of Chinese classical gardens. As one of the "Four Famous Gardens in China" and "World Cultural Heritage", the Summer Palace stands out among the many scenic spots in China and has become a must-visit place for tourists from all over the world to Beijing. During the "Eleventh" period, the Summer Palace once again ushered in a peak of passenger flow, presenting a lively scene of "people from the crowd", and the daily number of people entering the park was as high as more than 100,000. Tourists from all over the country and the world are crowded, squeezing the garden of about 300 hectares. If you want to avoid the peak of passenger flow as much as possible, it is a good choice to enter the park at dusk. However, entering the park in the evening can obviously only turn a small part of the park, and most of the "garden in the garden" attractions are closed near the closing of the park. For foreign tourists who come to the park for the first time and want to see more, this may not be a good choice. However, for those who do not intend to experience in depth and visit carefully, if you are not on a group tour and can arrange your time independently, it is a good choice to enter the park from the newly built palace gate in the evening and walk to the east palace gate to leave the park. This route is less than 1 kilometer. Along the east dike of Kunming Lake, you can visit Kuoru Pavilion, Seventeen-hole Bridge, South Lake Island, Wanshou Mountain Kunming Lake, Buddha Incense Pavilion, Wenchang Pavilion, Zhichun Pavilion, Renshou Hall and other iconic buildings and main landscapes in the Summer Palace. At the same time, you can also overlook the West Dike and Jade Spring Mountain Jade Peak Tower. There are many scenic spots along the way, and it basically covers most of the important landscapes of the Summer Palace. What's more, during the eleventh period, the Summer Palace night view lighting will be fully opened from 18:30 to 20:30 after sunset every night. In the evening, you can also enjoy the "bright lights" of the Summer Palace, and feel the solemn mystery, gorgeous grandeur and grandeur of the royal garden at the moment of nightfall. It is reported that during the "Eleventh" period every night, the Summer Palace Buddha Incense Pavilion, Wenchang Pavilion, Zhichun Pavilion, South Lake Island, Stone Boat, Seventeen-hole Bridge and other areas will light up at the same time, creating a simple and quiet holiday atmosphere for the Summer Palace at night. This year, the Seventeen-hole Bridge lighting has been fully upgraded, and a 3000K fixed color temperature lighting system has been selected to present the "Golden Light Through the Hole" at night. With the lights on the Seventeen-hole Bridge, Kunming Lake is as romantic and beautiful as the starry Milky Way. The lights illuminate the simple and exquisite bridge body. The reflection of the Seventeen-hole Bridge is presented on the sparkling lake, adding a gorgeous scenery to the ancient royal garden of the Summer Palace...